wlan on setup new installation

virusso80 · 2010-07-18 08:30:27

Hi all,
I'm trying to make the wireless working to perform a net-install.

When i choose network installation, it's not able to use wireless. Following the wiki, and typing

lsmod | grep -i net

it gives no results.
then i tried

lspci |grep -i net 
02:00.0 Network controller Intel Corporation Wifi Link 6000 Series (rev 35)
... - eth0 - ...

if i try t put wlan0 up (wlan0 is showed in ifconfig command):

ifconfig wlan0 up 
SIOCSIFLAGGS: no such file or directory

How to install using wifi?

Thanks

Last edited by virusso80 (2010-07-18 08:31:12)

karol · 2010-07-18 08:43:30

I think you need drivers: iwlwifi-6000-4.ucode there should already be available in linux-firmware package: http://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/ … are/files/

Last edited by karol (2010-07-18 08:48:49)

virusso80 · 2010-07-18 08:45:25

thanks for the reply! how to load them from setup process?

karol · 2010-07-18 08:50:25

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=741762
You may need core instead of netinstall.
Edit: or not ...
From the wiki:
About new Arch systems: The wireless drivers and tools are available during Arch set-up under the base-devel category.

Post the whole lsmod.

Last edited by karol (2010-07-18 08:56:48)

virusso80 · 2010-07-18 10:36:45

karol wrote:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=741762
You may need core instead of netinstall.
Edit: or not ...
From the wiki:
About new Arch systems: The wireless drivers and tools are available during Arch set-up under the base-devel category.
Post the whole lsmod.

oh man...don't let me copy the whole lsmod...there are so many modules. I reported the ones related to wifi, i guess

...
iwlcore            130544  1 iwlagn
..
mac80211      151387  2 iwlagn, iwlcore
...
cfg80211      108137   3  iwlagn, iwlcore, mac80211
...

I think i need to perform an installation from core-packages.

karol · 2010-07-18 10:55:27

Check if the correct driver is loaded 'dmesg | less' or 'dmesg | grep <modulename>'

virusso80 · 2010-07-18 11:07:11

karol wrote:

Check if the correct driver is loaded 'dmesg | less' or 'dmesg | grep <modulename>'

it seems it recognizes the iwlagn module. the problem is that i'm not able to put interface up. Also scanning is not possible (of course)

Thanks

karol · 2010-07-18 11:12:37

'ifconfig -a' please.

virusso80 · 2010-07-18 12:08:55

karol wrote:

'ifconfig -a' please.

eth0 ...
lo ...
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr...
Broadcast multicast MTU: 1500 Metric: 1
RX packets: 0 errors: 0 dropped: 0 overruns: 0 frame: 0
TX packets: 0 errors: 0 dropped: 0 overruns: 0 carrier: 0
collisions: 0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes: 0 (0.0 b) TX bytes: 0 (0.0 b)

karol · 2010-07-18 12:19:59

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wif … _available
The wireless_tools package is now available as part of the base system and is also on the live installation media (CD/USB stick image) under the base-devel category.
You cannot initialize wireless hardware without these user-space tools, so ensure they are installed from the installer media

Do you have them installed?
Maybe you can try adding the needed module in rc.conf.

virusso80 · 2010-07-18 12:32:50

thanks. I had already read the wiki in that point
in this case i'll procede with a cd-core installation setup. netinstall doens't work in this case, becasue i need that driver.

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